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MORGAN, EDWIN D. 



the arms which they had captured from a trans- 

 port and made their submission. The leaders 

 either joined the Skreli or fled to Montenegro; 

 their houses were fired and their cattle confis- 

 cated. The Shall! and Shoshi, who had at- 

 tacked the garrison of Scutari in April, were 

 excluded from the amnesty. In July an expe- 

 dition was undertaken against these tribes and 

 against the Skreli, who were responsible for 

 the murder of Salih Aga. The Skreli sent a 

 deputation, offering to yield to the demands of 

 the Government. Hafiz returned to Tusi and 

 sent word that the murderer of Salih Aga must 

 be surrendered and the chiefs come to Scutari 

 to receive the commands of the Vali. The 

 tribe refused these terms, and Hafiz again set 

 out with six battalions and four mountain-guns. 

 Three sharp skirmishes took place, in which the 

 Skreli were victorious. Yet when the Shallaand 

 Shoshi, after hearing of the submission of all 

 the other tribes, also accepted the amnesty, the 

 Skreli withdrew to distant fastnesses in the 

 hills, whither Hafiz Pasha had no inclination 

 to follow them, content with having secured 

 the rectification of the frontier, and pacified 

 the neighborhood of Lake Scutari. The depu- 

 tations of the Shalla and Shoshi were well re- 

 ceived by the Vali, and the Stamboul authori- 

 ties were so gratified at the favorable termina- 

 tion of the difficulties that they imposed no 

 ransom for the attack on Scutari. Their lead- 

 ers escaped into the Herzegovina. All the 

 tribes were commanded to deliver up to the 

 Government the weapons it had furnished 

 them at the time of the Russian war and during 

 the conflict with the great Albanian League, 

 a mandate to which no attention was paid. 

 On the 10th of August Hafiz Pasha- made his 

 triumphal entry into Scutari. 



The Porte was informed betimes of the se- 

 cret offer of the Malissori tribes to accept a 

 Montenegrin protectorate, which was made in 

 June. Engagements were said to be entered 

 into with the Cettinje Government to avert 

 this, but the substance of the promises has 

 not been divulged. Prince Nicholas visited 

 Stamboul soon after, and was received with 

 great hospitality and distinguished honors by 

 the Sultan. He is the first prince of the Cer- 

 nagorans who has paid a visit to the Padishah 

 since the foundation of the principality. This 

 event made a profound impression on the Al- 

 banians, who for centuries have been accus- 

 tomed to' regard the Turks and Montenegrins 

 as irreconcilable enemies. At this interview 

 the boundary dispute, after years of diplomatic 

 controversy, was settled in an hour between 

 the heads of the two states. The Prince of 

 Montenegro was persuaded to relinquish his 

 claims to the lands of the Hotti and Kastrati, 

 who retain their pastures undivided. In com- 

 pensation, Montenegro receives accessions of 

 territory in the Plava and Gusinje districts. 



The delimitation commission met directly 

 after the return of Prince Nicholas. The line 

 northeast of Lake Scutari to Gradishte was 



fixed. The district of Planinica as far as Mo- 

 cha, and thence to Mojkovac on the Tara, 

 which is the terminal point of the delimitation, 

 was not marked out by the end of the year. 



MORGAN, Edwin Denison, an American mer- 

 chant, born in Washington, Berkshire county, 

 Mass., Feb. 3, 1811 ; died in New York city, 

 Feb. 14, 1883. At the age of seventeen he en- 

 tered the store of his uncle, Nathan Morgan, 

 with whom, in about three years, he became a 

 partner. In 1836 he removed to New York, 

 and engaged in business on his own account, as 

 a grocer, in Front street. From that time till 

 the date of his death his life may be divided 

 into three periods. The first embraced about 

 twenty years, during which he was most active 

 and energetic as a merchant, extending his 

 operations to distant lands, and becoming well 

 known as a successful importer. His connec- 

 tion with the firm of E. D. Morgan & Co., as 

 senior partner, was continued through various 

 changes in its organization, and only ceased 

 with his death. For another period of about 

 twenty years, including a portion of the years 

 allotted to his active business career, he was 

 largely identified with the political life of his 

 adopted city and State, and of the United States 

 being at one time a member of the Board of 

 Aldermen of New York ; twice State Senator ; 

 a delegate to the conference assembled at Pitts- 

 burg in 1856 ; chairman of the convention that 

 followed at Philadelphia, and afterward chair- 

 man of the National Republican Committee; 

 twice Governor of the State of New York ; 

 and, finally, a member of the United States 

 Senate. During the term for which he was 

 elected to this last high office he was never 

 once absent from a meeting of the Senate, 

 and was one of its most efficient working 

 members. 



On the conclusion of his term, in 1869, the 

 ex-Senator directed his energies largely to the 

 various institutions with which he was con- 

 nected as a director, notably with the National 

 Bank of Commerce, the United States Trust 

 Company, the Lake Erie and Western Railroad 

 Company, and the Western Union Telegraph 

 Company. He was for many years President 

 of the Woman's Hospital of New York, and 

 associated with many charitable associations, 

 to all of which he was a liberal benefactor. 

 He gave $100,000 to Williams College, and 

 a like sum to the Presbyterian Theological 

 Seminary. In his long, active, and varied 

 career as merchant, statesman, and trustee, he 

 enjoyed a high character for integrity, ability, 

 and sound judgment, commanding in all these 

 various relations the entire confidence of his 

 fellow-citizens. He was twice tendered the 

 office of Secretary of the Treasury, but de- 

 clined it. His appointment by President Ar- 

 thur was confirmed by the Senate, but the office 

 was refused because of age and increasing in- 

 firmities. His interest in politics did not cease 

 with his retirement from the Senate, but his 

 counsel was alwavs at the command of those 



